suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the … home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs …

We examine the link between trade liberalization and aggregate productivity, with a focus on improved market selection … closely on productivity. Using a dynamic simulation, we find that enhanced selection increases aggregate productivity … substantially. Trade liberalization also increases productivity of incumbent plants and improves the allocation of activity. We find …

-level characteristics including productivity. …

This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

in the effect and size of productivity shocks explain most of the gap in misallocation between manufacturing and services …, while the remainder is explained by differences in firm productivity and age distribution. We interpret these results as …

spillovers on firm-level productivity are extensively studied in applied work, but not in the context of resource misallocation …

suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the … home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs …

work, we present a simple model where the effect of agricultural productivity on industrial development depends on the … soybean seeds in Brazil, which had heterogeneous effects on agricultural productivity across areas with different soil and …

work, we present a simple model where the effect of agricultural productivity on industrial development depends on the … soybean seeds in Brazil, which had heterogeneous effects on agricultural productivity across areas with different soil and …

in terms of value added, productivity, profits, product quality, and revenue in the different export destinations. We … remarkable increases in productivity. …